Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.
And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.
When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.